SCHENECTADY — City police are investigating the pre-dawn killing of a man found stabbed to death outside his home on Elm Street early Saturday.

Officers went to 65 Elm St., between State and Becker streets, just before 2:40 a.m. Saturday when they received a report of an injured man outside the home.

The victim, who was treated at the scene by a city firefighter, was rushed to Ellis Hospital's Nott Street campus, where he died.

His identity has not been released, pending notification of kin.

Later in the morning, yellow police tape surrounded the home. A police officer in a squad car guarded the scene; another police car was parked in a driveway by the back of the white home with blue doors.

A nearby resident said he believed the victim was a disc jockey who regularly arrived home around 2:30 a.m. "He just seemed like a nice guy, worked every day," said the man, who declined to give his name as he spoke outside his home. "He used to wave to me when he walked by ...it's a shame. For something like this to happen here, it shakes you up a little bit."

The stabbing is at least the third on Elm Street — and the second fatality — in the last nine months. In June, a 61-year-old man was stabbed following a fight on Elm Street, also between State and Becker streets. He was in stable condition after the incident.

On Dec. 26, Latoya Ebron died after being stabbed inside 201-203 Elm St.. A neighbor is charged.